Tagged With customization

The problem with using a picture of your significant other as your phone wallpaper is that it's awkward to ever change it away. Luckily my wife just changed her lock screen from a photo of me to a photo of a baby we like, so I'm changing mine to one of the cool maps offered by Alvar Carto.

Reader Saifali has submitted desktops in the past to our Desktop Showcase, but this one's a fresh look, and we like it. If you dig it too -- or just the Antarctic landscape in it -- here's how you can bring the same look to your computer.

What do you do when you have three beautiful curved ultrawide displays? Mount them side-by-side for a glorious, pixel-packed super-wide experience, like elliotvs did with his workspace. Here's a closer look.

Android: Some apps in Android can enter what's known as "immersive mode" which hides your buttons and status bar, giving you extra space. This Tasker action lets you enable this mode for any app whenever you need it.

Android: The kernel in your operating system handles a lot of low-level tasks like managing your CPU speed. Most users will never want to touch this, but if you're a tweaker with a desire to overclock your phone, Universal Kernel Manager can be a huge help.

Reader Alec submitted this desktop that brings a little bit of Windows 10 into macOS, but only the good parts. Mission Control gets a lovely unified look, and there's an app launcher at the bottom that functions like a taskbar. Here's how it's all set up.

ravenclawwit's desktop is too pretty to ignore. The clock in the center is a combination of awesome-looking cyberpunk and a Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes challenge -- but it's just the time. Here's how it's all set up.

We've been seeing a lot of water-based, beach-y, ocean-y wallpapers lately, and that makes us think you guys must be yearning for warmer weather. This one, from Sebastian, is a gorgeous, stark, black and white desktop with just a little customisation. Here's how it's all set up.

This landscape may look like it's steaming or on fire, but it's just bright, rich colours of the time of day the photo was shot -- and it makes for a beautiful wallpaper. Add a little customisation, and Nicolas has a great desktop worth sitting down at every day. Here's how it's all set up.

Frequent desktop contributor JonRedcorn2 usually uses Windows, but this time he has a Mac -- and that isn't stopping him from customising it the way he likes. Here's how he set up this beautifully clean desktop.

Android: Android's developer options have a few handy tricks, including the ability to make Android's animations go faster. However, you can only use 0.5 normal speed or nothing (unless you want to go slower). If you want to adjust them to any speed you like, you can do so with a few simple adb commands.